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    SubjectRe: VIA IDE driver, v1.5 (final)
    Andre Hedrick wrote:
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    > On Mon, 17 Jul 2000, Anthony Barbachan wrote:
    >
    > > I've seen several BIOSes that detect whether an 80-wire cable is plugged in
    > > or not. And when the 80 wire cable is not plugged in, the IDE is slowed
    > > down to UDMA-33. Perhaps these settings should be read from the BIOS if no
    > > other way is known. I'd also say to default to UDMA-66 as most motherboard
    > > that ship with support for it also provide an 80-wire cable.
    >
    > NO, I have the death of one disk on my wall of shame because of VIA and
    > mistimed. I will not have another dead disk added to a once spotless
    > wall. This is foolish. You do not drive 60MPH through a school zone just
    > because you do not see kids. There will allows be a lose soccer ball
    > popping into the road followed by a child. As there will be systems that
    > are U66 fully capable but the ribbon is not present.
    >
    > Yeah, this make no sense but neither does defaulting to U66.
    >
    > Andre Hedrick
    > The Linux ATA/IDE guy

    So what you are saying is that running a disk in U66 mode without the
    80-pin cable can physically damage the drive? Talk about a shoddy
    interface design...

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    Brian Gerst

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